CNET.com is reporting that next month Google will allow advertisers to block specific IPs. Beginning next month, Google plans to give advertisers the ability to prevent their pay-per-click ads from being shown to competitors suspected of repeatedly clicking on the ads to drive up their cost. This will be a great tool for those who…
In a recent NY Time article, Google let the cat out of the bag that in the upcoming months they will now show the URLs where your ads appear if you are part of the content network. Jensense has good thoughts on the topic from multiple perspectives but from an advertisers point of view I…
The adCenter blog announced some new features being launched for adCenter beta. The upgrades are Easily go to any Campaign or Ad Group in your account via our improved navigation ? Import your other search campaigns, including third-party campaigns, into adCenter with one Excel spreadsheet or comma-separated values (CSV) file. ? Delete poor-performing keywords right…
According to the Adwords Blog Today, we began rolling out improvements to the Quality Score algorithm, which will update the Quality Score for keywords in your account over the next 3 to 4 days. As I mentioned last week, the goal of this change is to improve the quality of ads that we serve to…
As of today, all AdWords advertisers can pause and resume keywords (for keyword-targeted campaigns), sites (for site-targeted campaigns), and ad creatives. As you can see from the picture below, this feature is functionally similar to the pause/resume feature on the Campaign Summary page – we’ve simply extended it to the keyword, sites and ad variations…
I posted about this a month ago and to prove to you I wasn’t making stuff up again, here is the official announcement on the Adwords blog. This is nothing but a good thing as Google aims to give us a little more transparency in our accounts, making it easier for advertisers and account managers…
According to Google’s AdWords Team, there is a new BETA for advertisers wanting to test cost-per-click site-targeted campaigns. The new BETA will help advertisers with increased flexibility. If you are site targeting it allows advetisers to choosing the bidding option of most interest. In addition, it will be possible to create new CPC campaigns and…
While I was at the AlwaysOn Media conference I kept running across the question: “how will advertising live on mobile phones?”
Shoemoney posted this article about how he bolded keywords in his Adwords ads and increased his clicks by 25%. In theory he is exactly right, having bold words in your ads will definitely increase traffic but only to an extent. I also don’t believe his > reason is exactly the reason why he saw an…
I have about 10 tabs open in my FireFox that I’ve been meaning to post about for ages so I am hopefully going to catch up on this in the next week or 2. With that said, Scott Woodard, not recently wrote a good article on MarketingPilgrim going over some PPC branding strategies that everyone…
I already despise the Google Quality Score for its lack of transparency as I believe its a way for Google to hike up bid prices. Well, apparently Yahoo thought it was a good idea because starting Feb. 5th paid search ads will be ranked using an “Ad Quality” ranking. According to the email Yahoo sent:…